Items Tagged ‘financials’

CNBC, Why unlikely partnerships will spark the health-care revolution by John Noseworthy — Our team from Mayo Clinic — the 150-year-old health-care organization that invented the first group practice of medicine — was looking to learn from a start-up in Chinatown. Innovation springs up in unlikely places through unconventional collaborations. Late last […]

Reader’s Digest, 15 Things Neurologists Do to Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease by Kim Fredericks — Alzheimer’s disease is the leading cause of dementia, accounting for approximately 80 percent of dementia cases and affecting more than 5.5 million people in the United States. But all dementia is not Alzheimer’s, says David Knopman, MD, a […]

CNN, How marriage might be linked to lower dementia risk by Jacqueline Howard — The researchers found no evidence that dementia risk in divorced people differed from those who were married, and they could not examine whether the duration of being widowed or divorced had any influence on the findings. With pooled […]

Washington Post, A standing desk isn’t going to help you lose a lot of weight by Rachel Rettner — The findings mean that, for a person who weighs about 140 pounds, substituting sitting with standing for six hours a day would burn an extra 54 calories per day, the researchers said. This […]

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The Mayo Clinic restored a healthy color to its finances in 2009, posting a 4.4 percent operating margin that meets its long-term targets, just one year after the clinic barely broke even. Mayo reported Thursday that it had operating income of $333 million last year on total revenue of $7.6 billion. “This past […]

The future of medicine at Mayo Clinic already has begun to appear. In many ways, Mayo administrators are trying to highlight the future rather than worry about the past. The fiscal year 2008 was disastrous as the recession affected nearly every business, including Mayo, a $7 billion nonprofit company that employs more than 32,000 people […]